Casey Anthony: George, Cindy and WFTV send messages - Hal

Casey Anthony: George, Cindy and WFTV send messages
posted by halboedeker on July, 20 2011 7:18

George and Cindy Anthony long to talk to Casey Anthony, the couple’s attorney told WESH-Channel 2 tonight.

“It’s good to hear she’s safe, but they want to make sure,” Mark Lippman told WESH’s Bob Kealing. “It’s still their daughter, no matter what.”

How interested are you in the Anthony family drama?

Lippman said the parents never wanted their daughter to face the death penalty. “I’m hoping Casey knows that and believes that,” Lippman said. Casey Anthony was acquitted July 5 of first-degree murder in the death of her daughter, 2-year-old Caylee.

If Casey won’t call her parents, George and Cindy will send messages via the media. Lippman said the Anthonys “may move on without Casey in their lives.”

George and Cindy Anthony plan to roll out a new foundation, Caylee’s Fund, within 10 days, Lippman told WESH. They will support grandparents’ rights and Caylee’s Law.

George and Cindy Anthony also want all the personal items from the trial, and the couple will either keep them or destroy them, Lippman told WESH’s Amanda Ober. “We don’t want to leave anything out there that could possibly be sold on eBay or privately,” Lippman said.

In other Anthony news:

WFTV-Channel 9 keeps showing its exclusive footage of a shielded woman running yesterday at Orlando Executive Airport. Defense attorney Jose Baez told WFTV that it was a hoax and the woman wasn’t Casey Anthony. Baez made the same statement to WKMG-Channel 6. WESH cited sources saying that the woman wasn’t Anthony.

But WFTV news director Bob Jordan stands by repeating the footage.

In an email, Jordan wrote me: “It’s news. It was either Casey Anthony or lawyers once associated with her defense team staging a prank. It is indisputable that the plane that landed at Orlando Executive Airport Tuesday is owned by a lawyer associated with the Anthony defense; that it was the very same plane that flew Ms. Anthony out of Orlando last Sunday morning; that the men escorting ‘the woman’ were lawyers associated with the Baez law firm; and that one of the vehicles we followed from Skywitness 9 is registered to one of those lawyers. The news WFTV reported is accurate. Claims made by others involved in this incident don’t pass the sniff test.”

And Jordan added, “Is there any doubt, Hal, that any other TV news operation in this town wouldn’t have run the same pictures if they’d gotten them?”

What do you think?

In a report, WFTV’s Jeff Deal noted that although Baez said the airport incident “was all just a hoax, it appears it is now no laughing matter.” People unhappy with Anthony’s acquittal are phoning threats to defense attorney Cheney Mason’s home.

WOFL-Channel 35 played Shirley Mason’s 911 call in which she said the family was getting a lot of threatening calls. “The Masons believe that these people that are harassing them are getting their home address and phone number off of Facebook,” Holly Bristow reported. Cheney Mason said the Facebook page was started without permission.

WKMG-Channel 6 reported that Shirley Mason said the couple received so many calls Tuesday night that they couldn’t get any sleep and disconnected the phones.

One threat read, “Your scumbag husband and Baez better sleep with one eye open.”

“It is a crime to make phone calls like this,” Bristow said.

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